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Playstation is pretty much American. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, its a division under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsiadry under Sony Corp America. B

Playstation is pretty much American. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, its a division under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsiadry under Sony Corp America. Both the PS4/pro and PS5 were American designs led by Mark Cerny

knolax 6y ago
Followed by Nintendo, running a Japanese OS on Japanese Hardware to play Japanese developed games. Have you not noticed the popularity of the new Animal Crossing during quarantine, or the outsized impact Nintendo has had on Western pop culture?
- monocasa 6y ago
  The switch hardware is pretty much a Nvidia Tegra X1 reference platform. The last mainline console they designed was the SNES, albeit they've been designing almost all of the mobile consoles.
  - esperent 6y ago
    Mobile consoles such as the DS, very close to being the best selling console of all time? 154 million to the PS2's 155 million. The Gameboy is number 3 at 118 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co...
    - monocasa 6y ago
      Sure, but the example give by the OP only listed a Switch game. And the Switch represents them getting out of the hardware market entirely by converging their mobile and home console lines and going with an Nvidia designed machine for both. Like, the Switch literally has the same RAM chips as the Tegra X1 dev boards. That's normally something that you'd swap out just based on your purchasing department's relationships with the chip vendors more than anything else and you almost never see those carried over.
      - knolax 6y ago
        Did you know that Animal Crossing is a series of games that run on more Nintendo consoles than just the Switch?
        monocasa 6y ago
        > the new Animal Crossing during quarantine Which, last time I checked is a switch exclusive game. And my point anyways, is that Nintendo hardware isn't Japanese designed anymore. Which is objectively true. Their software is great though, and is Japanese designed. Their OS reminds me a lot of Fuchsia, but actually completed and shipped.
        knolax 6y ago
        Or maybe in 2020 the actual SoC is a piece of commodity hardware and claiming that the SoC + support components is the totality of hardware design is how you get constantly overheating iPhones that bend when you put them in your back pocket. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Lite+Teardown/126223 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Lite+Teardow... I can't find any public information on what the Tegra X reference design is without registering an account with Nvidia, but even if you're telling the truth you conveniently ignore that said ram chips are made by Samsung.
        monocasa 6y ago
        > Or maybe in 2020 the actual SoC is a piece of commodity hardware and claiming that the SoC + support components is the totality of hardware design is how you get constantly overheating iPhones that bend when you put them in your back pocket. I mean, it's not a commodity. Another SoC means it's not a switch anymore as the software is incredibly tied to the specifics of that SoC. > I can't find any public information on what the Tegra X reference design is without registering an account with Nvidia, but even if you're telling the truth you conveniently ignore that said ram chips are made by Samsung. Here you can see the Samsung K4F6E304HB-MGCH chips being referenced for the Jetson Tegra X1 developer board. (https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r24_Release_v2.3/Tegra_Linux_Driver_Package_Release_Notes_R24.2.3.pdf https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r24_Relea... Also, Samsung isn't a Japanese company, so their chips being in there doesn't make it any closer to Japanese hardware.
Cyph0n 6y ago
The PS1, PS2, and PS3 were insanely successful consoles that were completely designed in Japan as far as I understand, so it’s still 3/5 for the Japanese teams.

knolax 6y ago

Followed by Nintendo, running a Japanese OS on Japanese Hardware to play Japanese developed games. Have you not noticed the popularity of the new Animal Crossing during quarantine, or the outsized impact Nintendo has had on Western pop culture?

monocasa 6y ago
The switch hardware is pretty much a Nvidia Tegra X1 reference platform. The last mainline console they designed was the SNES, albeit they've been designing almost all of the mobile consoles.
- esperent 6y ago
  Mobile consoles such as the DS, very close to being the best selling console of all time? 154 million to the PS2's 155 million. The Gameboy is number 3 at 118 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co...
  - monocasa 6y ago
    Sure, but the example give by the OP only listed a Switch game. And the Switch represents them getting out of the hardware market entirely by converging their mobile and home console lines and going with an Nvidia designed machine for both. Like, the Switch literally has the same RAM chips as the Tegra X1 dev boards. That's normally something that you'd swap out just based on your purchasing department's relationships with the chip vendors more than anything else and you almost never see those carried over.
    - knolax 6y ago
      Did you know that Animal Crossing is a series of games that run on more Nintendo consoles than just the Switch?
      - monocasa 6y ago
        > the new Animal Crossing during quarantine Which, last time I checked is a switch exclusive game. And my point anyways, is that Nintendo hardware isn't Japanese designed anymore. Which is objectively true. Their software is great though, and is Japanese designed. Their OS reminds me a lot of Fuchsia, but actually completed and shipped.
        knolax 6y ago
        Or maybe in 2020 the actual SoC is a piece of commodity hardware and claiming that the SoC + support components is the totality of hardware design is how you get constantly overheating iPhones that bend when you put them in your back pocket. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Lite+Teardown/126223 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Lite+Teardow... I can't find any public information on what the Tegra X reference design is without registering an account with Nvidia, but even if you're telling the truth you conveniently ignore that said ram chips are made by Samsung.
        monocasa 6y ago
        > Or maybe in 2020 the actual SoC is a piece of commodity hardware and claiming that the SoC + support components is the totality of hardware design is how you get constantly overheating iPhones that bend when you put them in your back pocket. I mean, it's not a commodity. Another SoC means it's not a switch anymore as the software is incredibly tied to the specifics of that SoC. > I can't find any public information on what the Tegra X reference design is without registering an account with Nvidia, but even if you're telling the truth you conveniently ignore that said ram chips are made by Samsung. Here you can see the Samsung K4F6E304HB-MGCH chips being referenced for the Jetson Tegra X1 developer board. (https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r24_Release_v2.3/Tegra_Linux_Driver_Package_Release_Notes_R24.2.3.pdf https://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r24_Relea... Also, Samsung isn't a Japanese company, so their chips being in there doesn't make it any closer to Japanese hardware.

Cyph0n 6y ago

The PS1, PS2, and PS3 were insanely successful consoles that were completely designed in Japan as far as I understand, so it’s still 3/5 for the Japanese teams.